"Einstein Professorship Report and Advanced Control & Robotics Symposium" were held in Shenyang Institute of Automation (SIA) on November 12, 2010. The State Key Laboratory of Robotics organized the meeting and invitedmore than 10 experts and scholars home and abroad to attend the meeting and give lectures on the meeting.More than 160 researchers and graduate students in SIA participated in the keynote reports. Professor Han Jianda, deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Robotics, presided at the meeting.
In the opening ceremony, Professor Wang Yuechao, director of SIA, expressed thanks and extended welcome to all the experts and scholars attending the meeting, and congratulated Professor Tzyh-Jong Tarn from Washington University in St. Louis on winning the "Einstein Professorship" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). On behalf of the CAS, Professor Wang conferred a CAS Einstein Professorship certificate on Professor Tarn.
Professor Tan gave a report titled "Quantum Control and Applications". He made a comprehensive introduction to the characteristics of quantum research, discussed how to control the content of quantum system, and forecast the future application of quantum control.
After the keynote report, Professor Cheng Daizhan with Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of CAS, Professor Long Guilu with Tsinghua University, Professor Gwo-Bin Lee with Cheng Kung University, and Professor Liu Yuxi with Tsinghua University made their reports invited by the meeting. In their reports, they presented the current technical challenges, research hotspot, latest research progress and future research development trends of advanced control in the world. Wen Jung LI with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Professor Ning Xiwith Michigan State University, Professor Wang Zhidong with Chiba Institute of Technology, and Dr. Uchechukwu C. Wejinya with University of Arkansas were invited to participate in the symposium and discussion.
The Einstein Professorship Program is a key initiative of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Einstein Professorships will be awarded each year to 20 distinguished international scientists actively working at the frontiers of science and technology, for conducting lecture-tours to China. The goals of the program are to strengthen science and technology links, cooperation and exchange between CAS scientists and respective Einstein Professors and their laboratories, and to enhance the training of future generations of scientists in China.
